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Ken Vandermark

Main Discography

  • Fourth Stream: Fourth Stream [Crystal Reflections: 1984]
  • Lombard Street: Stone Zoo [(no label)] -- cassette
  • Lombard Street: All That Falls [(no label)] -- cassette
  • Ken Vandermark & Curt Newton: Concert for Jimmy Lyons [Stoidal Circus: 1992]
  • Vandermark Quartet: Big Head Eddie [1993.02; Platypus 1]
  • NRG Ensemble: Calling All Mothers [1993.11; Quinnah 5: 1994] [B+]
  • Caffeine (Jim Baker, Steve Hunt, Ken Vandermark): Caffeine [1993.11.20; Okka Disk 12002: 1994]
  • Vandermark Quartet: Solid Action [1994.05; Platypus 2]
  • Ken Vandermark: Standards [1994.07.25-28; Quinnah 8]
  • Steelwool Trio: International Front [1994.09.05-06; Okka Disk 12005: 1998]
  • Ken Vandermark/Barrage Double Trio: Utility Hitter [1995.09.09-10; Quinnah 9: 1996] [A-]
  • FJF: Blow Horn [1995.10.15; Okka Disk 12019: 1997]
  • NRG Ensemble: This Is My House [Delmark 485: 1996]
  • Cinghiale: Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine [1995.03-1996.02; Eighth Day Music 80001: 1996]
  • Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Kurt Kessler: A Meeting in Chicago [1996.02.14; Eighth Day 80008: 1997; Okka Disk 12016: 1998] [B]
  • Steam: Steam [1996.04; Eighth Day Music 80010]
  • Steam: Real Time [1996.04.05-06; Eighty Day: 1997; Atavistic: 2000]
  • Joe Morris, Ken Vandermark, Hans Poppel: Like Rays [1996.06; Knitting Factory Works 224: 1998]
  • The Vandermark 5: Single Piece Flow [1996.08.10-11; Atavistic 47: 1997] [A-]
  • Fred Anderson/DKV Trio: Fred Anderson/DKV Trio [1996.12.03; Okka Disk 12014: 1997]
  • AALY Trio/Ken Vandermark: Hidden in the Stomach [Silkheart 149: 1998.12.18]
  • DKV Trio: DKV Live [1996.12.26; Okka Disk 100001: 1997]
  • NRG Ensemble: Bejazzo Gets a Facelift [Atavistic 73: 1997]
  • The Crown Royals: All Night Burner [1995.11.11, 1997.02.08-09; Estrus: 1997]
  • DKV Trio: Baraka [1997.02.17-19; Okka Disk 12012: 1997]
  • DK3: Neutrons [Quarterstick 48: 1997.08.12]
  • The Vandermark 5: Target or Flag [1997.10.25-26; Atavistic 106: 1998] [A]
  • AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark: Stumble [1998.01.17; Wobbly Rail 2: 1998]
  • Tripleplay (Ken Vandermark, Nate McBride, Curt Newton): Expansion Slang [1998.04.16-17; Boxholder 6: 2000]
  • Joe Morris With DKV Trio: Deep Telling [1998.04.30; Okka Disk 12027: 1999]
  • The Crown Royals: Funky-Do [1998.05.04-05; Estrus 1255: 1999]
  • Ken Vandermark's Joe Harriott Project: Straight Lines [1998.09; Atavistic 115: 1999.10.19] [A-]
  • DKV Trio: Live in Wels & Chicago 1998 [2CD] [1998.11.20-21; Okka Disk 12030: 1999]
  • Alan Licht & Loren Mazzacane Connors: Hoffman Estates [Drag City 151: 1998.12.01] [guest]
  • The Vandermark 5: Simpatico [1998.12.12-13; Atavistic 107: 1999] [B]
  • Ken Vandermark's Sound in Action Trio: Design in Time [1999.07.06-07; Delmark 516: 1999.10.26] [A-]
  • Paul Lytton & Ken Vandermark: English Suites [2CD] [1999.01.11; Wobbly Rail 9: 2000]
  • AALY Trio With Ken Vandermark: Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe [1999.03; Wobbly Rail 8: 1999]
  • Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate McBride, Ken Vandermark: No Such Thing [1999.04.14-15; Boxholder: 2001]
  • AALY Trio/DKV Trio: Double or Nothing [1999.09.23; Okka Disk 12035: 2002]
  • The Vandermark 5: Burn the Incline [1999.12.09-10; Atavistic 121] [B+]
  • Witches & Devils: At the Empty Bottle [Knitting Factory Works 282: 2000]
  • Spaceways Incorporated: Thirteen Cosmic Standards by Sun Ra & Funkadelic [2000.01; Atavistic 120: 2000.07.18] [A-]
  • Territory Band-1: Transatlantic Bridge [2000.02.03-04; Okka Disk 12040: 2001]
  • AALY Trio With Ken Vandermark: I Wonder If I Was Screaming [2000.03; Crazy Wisdom: 2000]
  • School Days: Crossing Division [2000.03.09-10; Okka Disk 12037: 2000] [A-]
  • The Vandermark 5: Acoustic Machine [2001.01.10-11; Atavistic 128] [A-]
  • Territory Band-2: Atlas [2001.02.15-16; Okka Disk 12050: 2002]
  • DKV Trio: Trigonometry [2CD] [2001.03.24, 2001.03.31; Okka Disk 12042: 2002]
  • The Vandermark 5: Free Jazz Classics Vols. 1 & 2 [2CD] [2000.Spring, 2001.Spring; Atavistic 137: 2002.09.10] [A-]
  • School Days: In Our Times [2001.11.24-26; Okka Disk 12041: 2002]
  • Ken Vandermark: Two Days in December [2CD] [2001.12.03-05; Wobbly Rail 12: 2002]
  • School Days/The Thing: The Music of Norman Howard [Anagram: 2002]
  • FME: Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe Stockholm - Feb. 27, 2002 [2002.02.27; Okka Disk 10007: 2002]
  • Spaceways Inc.: Version Soul [Atavistic 132: 2002.05.07] [A]
  • Paal Nilssen-Love/Ken Vandermark: Dual Pleasure [2002.07.08-09; Smalltown Supersound 68: 2003.05.30]
  • Ken Vandermark: Furniture Music [2002.08.12-19; Okka Disk: 2003] [B+]
  • The Vandermark 5: Airports for Light [2002.08.22-23; Atavistic 140: 2003.03.18] [A-]
  • Free Fall (Ken Vandermark, Ingebright Håker Flaten, Håvard Wiik): Furnace [2002.10.16-17; Wobbly Rail 13: 2003] [B+]
  • Ken Vandermark/Brian Dibblee: Duets [2002.01.20, 2003.01.24; Future Reference 2: 2003]
  • The Vandermark Five: Elements of Style . . . Exercises in Surprise [2003.07.09-10; Atavistic 150: 2004]
  • Atomic/School Days: Nuclear Assembly Hall [2003.09; Okka Disk 12049 (2CD): 2004]
  • Zu & Spaceways Inc.: Radiale [2003.09.01-04; Atavistic 151: 2004] [A]

    Total records in list above: 63 (43 in house, 0 from other sources).

    Secondary Discopgraphy

  • Syl Johnson With Hi Rhythm: Back in the Game [Delmark 674: 1994] -- arranged horns for 5 tracks, plays on 9 (of 14)
  • The Flying Luttenbachers: Constructive Destruction [ugEXPLODE 5/Quinnah 6: 1995]
  • The Flying Luttenbachers: Destroy All Music [ugEXPLODE 6: 1995; Skin Graft 54: 1998]
  • The Flying Luttenbachers: Retrospektiw III [1991-1995; ugEXPLODE/Quinnah: 1998]
  • Maestro Subgum and the Whole: Don't Flirt [Plonk: 1995] -- guest, bass clarinet on three tracks
  • The Denison/Kimball Trio: Soul Machine [Skin Graft 22: 1995.04.17] -- one track
  • The Coctails: Long Sound [Carrot Top 2: 1995.05.01] -- plays on 3 tracks
  • Falstaff: II [Homestead: 1996]
  • Boxhead Ensemble: Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back [Atavistic: 1997]
  • Peter Brötzmann: The Chicago Octet/Tentet [3CD] [1997.01.29, 1997.09.16-17; Okka Disk 2022: 1998]
  • Boxhead Ensemble: The Last Place to Go [Secretly Canadian: 1998; Atavistic: 1998]
  • Pinetop Seven: Rigging the Toplights [Atavistic: 1998]
  • Jeb Bishop: 98 Duets [Wobbly Rail 4: 1998] -- plays on 2 tracks
  • Gastr del Sol: Camoufleur [Drag City: 1998] -- plays on 1 track
  • Misha Mengelberg: Two Days in Chicago [2CD] [1998.10.11-12; Hatology 535: 1999] -- plays on 2 tracks
  • Jim O'Rourke: Eureka [Drag City] -- plays on 1 track
  • Simon Joyner: The Lousy Dance [Atavistic: 1999] -- guest
  • Superchunk: Come Pick Me Up [Merge: 1999]
  • Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet: Stone/Water [1999.05.23; Okka Disk 12032: 2000]
  • Common Rider: Last Wave Rockers [Lookout 226: 1999.06.01]
  • Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet Plus 2: Broken English [2000.07.03-04; Okka Disk 12043: 2002]
  • Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet Plus 2: Short Visit to Nowhere [2000.07.03-04; Okka Disk 12044: 2002]
  • Chamber Strings: Month of Sundays [Bobsled: 2001]
  • The Nomads: Up-Tight [Sympathy for the Record Industry: 2001; White Jazz: 2001] -- plays on 1 track
  • Carlo Actis Dato: USA Tour/April 2001/Live [2001.04; Splasc(h) 520: 2002] -- plays on 3 tracks
  • Portastatic Featuring Ken Vandermark & Tim Mulvenna: The Perfect Little Door [2001.05.12-13; Merge 210: 2001]
  • Zu: Igneo [2001.12.12-15; Amanita: 2002] [A-]
  • Yakuza: Way of the Dead [Century Media: 2002] -- plays on 1 track
  • Lord High Fixers: The Beginning of the End -- The End of the Beginning [In the Red: 2000]
  • Sinister Luck Ensemble: Anniversary [Perishable: 2002]
  • Peter Brötzmann Tentet: Images [2002.06.17-18; Okka Disk 12047: 2004]
  • Peter Brötzmann Tentet: Signs [2002.06.17-18; Okka Disk 12048: 2004]

    Compilations:

  • No 99 [1999.04.08-10; Entartete Kunst 2120: 2000 (5CD)] -- live from No Music Festival 1999, various artists

    Total records in list above: 33 (8 in house, 0 from other sources).

    Friends

    Some (by no means all) records by artists closely associated with Vandermark: Jeb Bishop, Kent Kessler, Paal Nilssen-Love, Mars Williams.

  • Liquid Soul: Liquid Soul [1995.03.02-03; Ark 21 54573: 1996.10.29] -- Mars Williams [B-]
  • Georg Gräwe Quartet (Frank Gratkowski, Kent Kessler, Hamid Drake): Melodie und Rhythmus [1997.05; Okka Disk 12024] [B+]
  • Jeb Bishop Trio (Kent Kessler, Tim Mulvenna): Jeb Bishop Trio [1997.11.29; Okka Disk 12029: 1999]
  • Liquid Soul: Make Some Noise [Ark 21 10021: 1998.05.05]
  • Jeb Bishop/Sebi Tramontana: Chicago Defenders [2000; Wobbly Rail 11: 2002]
  • Paal Nilssen-Love/Håkon Kornstad: Schlinger [2000; Smalltown Supersound 77: 2003] [B+]
  • Liquid Soul: Here's the Deal [Shanachie 5065: 2000.03.14] [B]
  • Paal Nilssen-Love/Mats Gustafsson: I Love It When You Snore [2001; Smalltown Supersound 63: 2002] [B+]
  • Triage: Premium Plastics [Solitaire 4025: 2001.04]
  • Jeb Bishop Trio/Quartet (Kent Kessler, Tim Mulvenna, Jeff Parker): Afternoons [2000.07.24-25; Okka Disk 12039: 2001]
  • Kent Kessler: Bull Fiddle [2001.06.06; Okka Disk 12038]
  • Boxhead Ensemble: Two Brothers [Atavistic 126: 2001.08.21]
  • Liquid Soul: Evolution [Shanachie 5095: 2002.10.08]
  • XMARSX: XMARSX [Atavistic 138: 2002.09.10]
  • Triage: Twenty Minute Cliff [Okka Disk 12045: 2003]
  • Boxhead Ensemble: Quartets [Atavistic 136: 2003.10.07]
  • Dave Rempis Quartet: Out of Season [482 Music: 2004]

    Total records in list above: 17 (6 in house, 1 from other sources).